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A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1.…
A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1. concerning gracious conditions in the soul before faith, 2. evidencing justification by sanctification, 3. touching the active power of faith : twelve reasons against stinted forms of prayer and praise : together with the difference between the Christian and antichristian church / written by Francis Cornwall ...A conference Mr. John Cotton held at Boston with the elders of New-England 1. concerning gracious conditions in the soule before faith, 2. evidencing justification by sanctification, 3. touching the active power of faith : twelve reasons against stinted forms of prayer and praise : together with the difference between the Christian and antichristian church / written by Francis Cornwell ...
London: printed by J. Dawson, 1646
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1Certain it is, that those which john writ unto, were three sorts of •en: Old men, Young men, and Babes: •et there was none of them but ⟨p. 20⟩did know their good estate, by the knowledge of the Father; before they knew their good estate by their brotherly love: For even of Babe• (he saith) they knew the Father, 1 Joh• 2. 13. And therefore by the rule o• relation, they knew their Son-ship• and adoption: And if it should be asked, how they knew it; John telleth, By the unction they had receive• from Christ,• Joh. 2. 27. that is, b• the spirit it self, which taught them t• know all things; which no created gifts of Sanctification could do. Even in nature, children do• not first come to know their parents either by their lov• to their brethren or by their obedience to their parents; but from their parents love descending on them: So we loved him because he first loved us, 1 John 4. 19▪ Herein is love, not that we loved God, bu• that he loved us, and sent his Son to bee• propitiation for e•r sins, 1 Joh. 4. 10.
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